Christine de Pizan (1364 - 1430)

Short name Christine de Pizan
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First name Christine
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Alternative name Christine de Pisan
Date of birth 1364
Date of death 1430
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Sex Female
Place of birth Venezia (ITA)
Place of death France
Lived in Venezia (ITA) , Paris , France
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Bibliography MENTIONED IN: - Boudier de Villemert 1778 - Briquet 1804 - Mongellaz, 1828 - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Desplantes et Pouthier, 1890, p.7-14 - Larnac, 1921 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992 - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) I, 181 - Debeljak, Pregled, 1912 Cf. - C. Willard, Christine de Pizan. Her life and works. New York, 1984. - M. Quilligan, The Allegory of Female Authority. Ithaca/Londen, 1991. - H. Solterer, The Master and Minerva. Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture. Berkely/London, 1995. - Lerner, Creation of Feminist Consciousness, 1993, discussed p.49-50, 143-6, 192-5 reception: William Caxton, epilogue de sa traduction des Enseignemens moraux (1478), dans W.J.B. Crotch, The Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton, Londres, Oxford University Press, 1928, p. 32 et épilogue de The Fayttes of Armes (1489), traduction des Fais d'armes et de chevalerie, id., p. 103-104.
Provisional Notes NOT MENTIONED IN: - La Porte 1769 As a child traveled with her father to the French court. Also lived in Abbaye de Poissy, where she died. Married (1380), widowed (1389). 1 daughter, 2 sons. MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p. 35ss: critique of institutional marriage
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Religion / ideology Catholic
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Spouse Pisan, Christine de
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Place(s) of Residence Venezia (ITA) , Paris , France